Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of the film is Gene Hackman, who's role here is vaguely reminiscent of his existential Popeye Doyle of The French Connection. Now, however, he seems strained as he portrays a tough basketball coach who at one time got kicked out of the sport for pasting one of his players but is now an improved man who comes to a wholesome all-American town and tries to teach them boys a thing or two about the game...
...think it's hilarious," Polsky says, but adds that he wouldn't care to try the sport himself. "It's sort of like smoking. You don't want to get the habit...
...shared addiction to the rather obscure sport gives the hard-core players an identity as foosers. "It's a clique of addicts," says Manuel Lopez '89. And Flora Chang '86-'87 says, "A lot of the people in Quincy recognized me because I played foosball...
While it remains highly unlikely that the Ivy schools would move to secede from the national body of college sport, such suggestions have been made in the past. And the recent passage of an NCAA rule limiting the role of alumni boosters in the recruiting process both illustrates and exacerbates the problem of Ivy-NCAA relations...
While recruiting procedures vary from sport to sport (see story Friday), many coaches get the recruiting process moving by reading evaluations, watching films, and traveling across the country in search of qualified athletes...